Armageddon Averted The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

Name: Armageddon Averted The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
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ISBN: 9780195168945

ISBN-10: 0195168941

ISBN-13: 9780195168945

Edition: 2003

Authors: Stephen. Kotkin

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In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that the collapse of the Soviet Union would come from within, still less that it would happen meekly, without global conflagration. In this brilliantly compact, original, engaging book, Stephen Kotkin shows that the Soviet collapse resulted not from military competition but, ironically, from the dynamism of Communist ideology, the long-held dream for "socialism with a human face." The neo-liberal reforms in post-Soviet Russia never took place, nor could they have, given the Soviet-era inheritance in the social, political, and economic landscape. Kotkin takes us deep into post-Stalin Soviet society…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.52" wide x 5.31" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface to the paperback edition


Preface


Note on the text


List of plates


List of maps


Introduction



History's cruel tricks



Reviving the dream



The drama of reform



Waiting for the end of the world



Survival and cannibalism in the rust belt



Democracy without liberalism?



Idealism and treason


Notes


Further reading


Index